About Humphry Smith
Lived 1624 – 1663 (aged 38–39). Humphry Smith was an English preacher.
Humphrey Smith (died 1663) was an English Quaker preacher.
Life Smith probably lived in Little Cowarne, Herefordshire and preached in Andover, Hampshire. He was repeatedly arrested for preaching and wrote most of his books in Winchester gaol. He died of gaol fever (typhus). From the record of the Quaker Burial Ground at Bramshott, Hampshire: "Humphrey Smith who upon the 14th day of the eighth month 1662 was committed to the county goal at Winchester for being at an unlawful meeting at Alton and a ringleader and one of the chief of the Quakers there. He has remained in gaol until the day of his decease and was buried at Bramshott the 6th day of the third month 1663." Source: England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Burials 1578-1841.
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Who was Humphry Smith?
English Quaker preacher
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Humphry Smith was born in 1624.
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Humphry Smith died in 1663.
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Humphry Smith was a preacher.
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Humphry Smith was English.
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